Mr. Gleacher is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Broadpoint.Gleacher. Mr. Gleacher was Chairman of Gleacher Partners, which he founded in 1990. Mr. Gleacher founded the M&A department at Lehman Brothers in 1978 and headed global M&A at Morgan Stanley from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Gleacher is Chairman of the Institute for Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and is also Chairman of the Ransome Scholarship Trust for St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland. Mr. Gleacher also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Northwestern University. Mr. Gleacher received an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Northwestern University and served as a U.S. Marine infantry officer in the 1960s.
Mr. McNierney is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Broadpoint.Gleacher. Mr. McNierney joined Broadpoint in 2002 as the Director of Investment Banking, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Broadpoint from June 2006 until September 2007. Mr. McNierney has been a director of the Company since June 2006. Prior to joining Broadpoint, Mr. McNierney was a Managing Director of the Healthcare and Communications Services investment banking groups at Robertson Stephens. Prior to that, Mr. McNierney was a Vice President in the Healthcare investment banking group at Smith Barney. Mr. McNierney received a BA and a JD/MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Turner has been the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since March 31, 2008. Mr. Turner has over 20 years of experience in the securities and financial services industries. From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Turner served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Knight Capital Group, Inc. (formerly known as Knight Trading Group, Inc.) a NASDAQ listed trade execution company for on-line broker-dealers. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Turner was at Crown Financial Group, a publicly traded market maker, first as Chair of their Audit Committee and then as Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining Knight Capital Group, Inc., Mr. Turner was a Corporate Vice President at PaineWebber Incorporated, serving in a variety of financial management positions in the fixed income, finance, merchant banking and commodities trading divisions and a Vice President at Citibank in the treasury and investment banking divisions. Mr. Turner practiced at the accounting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and he became a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Turner received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MSBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ms. Arciero-Craig is Broadpoint.Gleacher’s General Counsel and Secretary. She joined the firm in 1997. She has been General Counsel and Secretary of the Company since 2007. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. Arciero-Craig served as Deputy General Counsel and prior to 2003, she served as Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining the firm, she was an attorney with the law firm of Harris Beach PLLC, where she practiced in the fields of commercial litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring. Ms. Arciero-Craig received a JD from Albany Law School of Union University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairfield University. Ms. Arciero-Craig is a member of various Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association committees.
Mr. Mascera is the Chief Administrative Officer of Broadpoint.Gleacher. Mr. Mascera joined the firm in 2008 as Chief Administrative Officer where he heads and is responsible for the firm’s Information Technology, Operations, Real Estate and Facilities Departments. Previously, he served as Global Head of Institutional Sales Technology at Merrill Lynch responsible for IT planning, strategy, and delivery of applications for Institutional Sales. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Mascera spent eight years with Cowen and Company as Director heading technology for several business lines including Institutional Sales, Investment Banking, Research, Operations, Human Resources, Compliance, and Accounting and Finance. Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Mascera provided IT management consulting services to the Executive Team at The Depository Trust Company, was Vice President and head of application infrastructure & development in the Retail Branch Systems group at Smith Barney and served as Assistant Vice President in the Branch Systems group at PaineWebber. Mr. Mascera received a B.B.A. in Finance from Hofstra University and an M.S. in Information Technology from Long Island University.